Recent content by missyintx

My hubby just rebuilt a 10 gallon tank that I want to use strictly as a hospital tank since I have so many cichlids and injuries are bound to occur. Do I need to have this tank up and running 24-7 just as I would any other tank? Or can I just pull it out, use water from the tank the fish is in...

I've gotten my bargain tanks from flea markets, garage sales and our local Thrifty Nickle. Oh, one I got ina round-a-bout way thru one of my LFS. SOme guy had left a note on the counter wanting to sell his 30g tall with all equipment and stand and we jumped all over that! Good luck in your search.

Currently my most unusual fish are my 4 leapord puffer! I adore them and they are so cute.

The products I use are StressCoat and/or easy balance as well as the chlorine remover. And while this is far from the popular method of cycle, I set up, add chemicals, wait about 24 hours and then toss ina coule of rosy reds and then watch them for a few hours. If all is well after that time, I...

You would think that would be considered animal cruellty. It definitely make me feel better about my set up' right now because I know that its not going to be this way forever. That poor fish1 :evil:

I would definately steer clear of the red-earred slider. they are adorable when they are little, but they get to be about 8-10" around from what I've heaard. When had one named Speedy in our first tank which was 20 gallons. He was too big when we got him but he was sort of adopted/inherited him...

I'm so excited! I've been wanting some puffers for a long time, reading up on them, and finally had a well established tank I could turn into a brackish from fresh. So I went to one of my favorite LFS where the owner won't sell you any fish without making sure you have exactly what is needed to...

Despite the fact that he had his normal morning feeding of pellets and flakes, and a mid-afternoon treat of frozen tubifex worms and brine shrimp (which he took from my hand for the first time!), my Oscar ate my littlest pink convict! Really annoys me, but I accept this comes with the territory...

Hey e-cat, I would also be interested if the cost isn't too prohibitive. What do you think the shipping costs ect would be to Texas for say 3 or 4 calvus?

I've never seen my tetras eating off the bottom. Everything else in there seems to tho. And maybe my Angels are weird but I see them picking at the bottom all the time. They get Tropical flakes, frozen brine, frozen tubifex worms, dried blood worms. The angels and my other ciclids get all the...

Shoot, I'd take it if it was me. Resealing it can't be that difficult and if its free? In my book thats a big DUH!!! My hubby is really good at things like that tho, so it wouldn't be that be a deal.

Hmmmm, favorite? I have to just pick one? Well, it would have to be my Green Terror. followed closing by my Green Severum, Oscar, Jaguar, and Jack Dempsey. {stomps foot} :twisted: Can't I pick them all?????? :wink: My husbands are the Green Terror, followed closely by the Jack Dempsey, then...

My husband raised guppies at one time. He says they are guppies. If they were mollies, they would come out at birth with the dalmation coloring. He also advises that if they are in the same tank with the other fish, they will get eaten before they get grown so moving them to a grow-out tank...

One of the first cichlids I ever had was a firemouth. He was an extremely shy fish. I never saw him come out to eat and rarely saw him swimming around the tank at all. I think this is part of their nature. Unfortunately mine died about 6 weeks later. I guess he could never recover from the...

I have a 1.5" Green Severum that I bought yesterday. He was getting nipped by his former tank mates and has a nasty spot on the side of his head. I added some StressCoat to the tank he's in now. (Tank mates now are angelfish of varying size, 6 zebra danios, 2 plecos. I was thinking a salt bath...